We performed a comparison between Dell NetWorker and Veeam Backup & Replication based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has a longer lifespan."
"I like that it's stable and scalable."
"It is scalable software. All you need to increase is its RAM and CPU. It's pretty easy."
"Good scalability and virtual environment protection."
"The solution offers compatibility with many types of database systems. It is one of the largest backup solutions. Additionally, it gives important information about data domain systems with deduplication."
"It's a good product that can be integrated easily with the Data domain."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"The backup software has been much faster since we've deployed the solution."
"One of the best things about Veeam is that they have consistently improved on themselves since they started. Personally, I've been using Veeam since around 2013/2014 when it was only supporting certain hypervisors such as HyperV, and since then it has become truly mature enterprise-level software with a lot of versatility."
"Most of the features that we can use with HPE products are directly integrated with the Veeam. This is very important for the customers to have only one pane of glass to manage the backups and also use the HPE products for the backups."
"With Replication, Veeam allows us to have a duplicated VM on standby."
"It has helped us transfer the solution in two days instead of working for a minimum of one week to ten days."
"The solution is stable and the performance is good."
"The ability to offload backup snapshots to the SAN helps with reducing the backup durations."
"It lets you verify a backup with the least amount of effort."
"The solution is easy to install and very stable."
"We are looking forward to better stability in future versions."
"When you're working with VMware, you need to use vProxy machines. You have to install the vProxy for every host in the VMware environment."
"The configuration is too complex."
"It is not easy to understand and deploy. It is complex in nature. Simplicity is not there. When we deploy it, the customer always needs some training from us. To make it user friendly, there should be one agent that can be used to back up every product. Dell EMC NetWorker uses so many user agents. In PowerProtect Data Manager, you can just install its VM, import that VM into vCenter, and you can start to do backups directly from vCenter. However, in Dell EMC NetWorker, you always need one server, and from that server, you need to initiate all backups. You must know the interface and the CLI. It is not user friendly. It would be a great feature if we can deploy Dell EMC NetWorker on a virtual machine, like Avamar. The additional features that are required in Dell EMC NetWorker are already available in PowerProtect Data Manager and Avamar. Therefore, there is no need to enhance Dell EMC NetWorker. It would be better if they can just rename it to PowerProtect Data Manager or Avamar."
"The process of upgrading versions should be improved because as it is now, you have to completely uninstall the old version first, and then install the new version."
"There should be total integration of the replication and cloud logistic back up on cloud."
"NetWorker's major problem is its legacy software."
"Its console UI should be better. It should also have more out-of-the-box reporting functionalities. It should also have easier cloud integration. They have got cloud boost and things like that, but if you want to directly back up to the cloud, I'm not too sure whether you can do it. For example, you can easily send data from Commvault to AWS, Azure, or a container, but it seems to be not so easy in NetWorker."
"Offering mobile apps that give engineers a global view of his backup regime would be a "nice to have" feature."
"Occasionally, in the course of upgrading one's virtualization platform, the backup can be ruined."
"If you upgrade too quickly, you may have issues."
"If they could add more support for all of the modern hypervisors, that would make Veeam much better and more flexible to work with. For example, there is no solution for VM to VM replication when it comes to Oracle OEM servers."
"They need to improve their technical side."
"Its licensing needs to be improved. Its licensing has become complex since last December. They have changed the way the product is licensed, and there is a lot of confusion. Sometimes, when a new version comes, it seems that it has not been tested enough because I usually find some bugs in it. It could also have more integration with other virtualization products, such as desktop virtualization products and open-source virtualization products."
"The patching can be quite difficult at times."
"Veeam doesn't have the reporting part quite right. Its data visualization isn't as slick as other solutions like Veritas. For example, in Veritas, you can see a calendar that shows you which days are backed up. Veeam lacks features like that."
Dell NetWorker is ranked 14th in Backup and Recovery with 73 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 328 reviews. Dell NetWorker is rated 7.8, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell NetWorker writes "A stable tool that has an easy-to-use GUI that enables quick restoration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Dell NetWorker is most compared with Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Avamar, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup and Zerto. See our Dell NetWorker vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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